Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 60 63
Rank change year-on-year -55 +3 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,500 1,888 3,650
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 4.35% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 4.66% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 1,030 2,746
10th Percentile £48,289 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £115,625 £114,325 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,963 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43,068 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -53 1,364 £75,000 - 573
London +5 707 £86,750 +2.06% 240
UK excluding London -114 668 £67,500 -3.57% 379
Work from Home -30 648 £70,000 - 348
North of England -60 300 £69,310 -4.07% 119
South East -82 160 £67,500 - 109
North West -64 148 £71,716 -1.08% 78
Yorkshire -46 97 £69,310 -5.94% 23
Midlands -103 64 £67,500 +3.85% 51
South West -79 62 £52,500 -23.39% 50
North East +7 55 £65,000 +18.18% 18
West Midlands -68 42 £75,000 +7.14% 27
East of England -26 40 £60,100 +4.52% 17
Scotland -74 33 £62,500 -16.67% 17
East Midlands -75 21 £67,250 +7.60% 24
Wales -35 9 £53,171 +2.25% 9
Northern Ireland -30 7 £62,500 +13.64% 9
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (1.93%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.13%) Confluence
3 16 (1.07%) Apache
4 14 (0.93%) IIS
4 14 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 14 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (0.87%) CMS
6 12 (0.80%) JBoss
7 11 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.40%) WordPress
9 5 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.33%) Drupal
10 4 (0.27%) Camunda
10 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) Appian
11 3 (0.20%) Liferay
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.60%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.47%) Maya
2 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.067%) Actimize
6 1 (0.067%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.067%) Quorum
6 1 (0.067%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.067%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.067%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 801 (53.40%) AWS
2 619 (41.27%) Azure
3 302 (20.13%) GCP
4 247 (16.47%) Serverless
5 154 (10.27%) SaaS
6 126 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (8.33%) GitHub
8 114 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (6.93%) Amazon S3
10 89 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
11 82 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
13 70 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
14 63 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
16 46 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 45 (3.00%) Azure AKS
18 44 (2.93%) Datadog
19 42 (2.80%) PaaS
20 40 (2.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.00%) Broadband
2 19 (1.27%) Network Security
3 10 (0.67%) HTTP
4 9 (0.60%) DNS
4 9 (0.60%) MQTT
5 8 (0.53%) Internet
5 8 (0.53%) VPN
6 7 (0.47%) AMQP
6 7 (0.47%) Firewall
7 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.33%) DHCP
8 5 (0.33%) LTE
9 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.20%) Modbus
9 3 (0.20%) RFID
9 3 (0.20%) SNMP
9 3 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.067%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (12.73%) NoSQL
2 183 (12.20%) MongoDB
3 178 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 84 (5.60%) MySQL
6 75 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 74 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
8 57 (3.80%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (2.47%) Redis
12 35 (2.33%) BigQuery
13 30 (2.00%) Big Data
14 23 (1.53%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.93%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.87%) Power BI
17 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.67%) DB2
18 8 (0.53%) Tableau
19 7 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 193 (12.87%) Git
2 135 (9.00%) GitLab
3 128 (8.53%) Jenkins
4 50 (3.33%) TeamCity
5 46 (3.07%) JIRA
6 39 (2.60%) JUnit
7 35 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 33 (2.20%) CircleCI
9 32 (2.13%) Cypress.io
10 26 (1.73%) Mockito
11 25 (1.67%) Maven
12 21 (1.40%) Claude Code
13 18 (1.20%) SonarQube
14 17 (1.13%) Selenium
15 16 (1.07%) Bitbucket
15 16 (1.07%) Vite
16 13 (0.87%) JMeter
17 8 (0.53%) Visual Studio
18 7 (0.47%) NUnit
18 7 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 433 (28.87%) Finance
2 309 (20.60%) Social Skills
3 153 (10.20%) Banking
4 122 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 96 (6.40%) Law
6 93 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
7 76 (5.07%) Retail
8 67 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (3.07%) Financial Institution
10 39 (2.60%) Back Office
11 38 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.20%) Billing
13 18 (1.20%) Legal
14 16 (1.07%) Games
15 15 (1.00%) Advertising
15 15 (1.00%) Marketing
16 14 (0.93%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.80%) Front Office
18 10 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 523 (34.87%) Developer
2 392 (26.13%) Senior
3 295 (19.67%) Software Engineer
4 218 (14.53%) Architect
5 198 (13.20%) Lead
6 133 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 127 (8.47%) Java Developer
8 121 (8.07%) Senior Developer
9 100 (6.67%) .NET Developer
10 99 (6.60%) Java Engineer
10 99 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 91 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 58 (3.87%) Software Developer
14 56 (3.73%) Lead Developer
15 51 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
17 45 (3.00%) C# Developer
18 44 (2.93%) Java Software Engineer
19 43 (2.87%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (22.47%) React
2 324 (21.60%) .NET
3 274 (18.27%) RESTful
4 266 (17.73%) Node.js
5 239 (15.93%) Spring
6 220 (14.67%) REST
7 216 (14.40%) Spring Boot
8 181 (12.07%) Kafka
9 128 (8.53%) AngularJS
10 112 (7.47%) .NET Core
11 96 (6.40%) ASP.NET
12 92 (6.13%) gRPC
12 92 (6.13%) Vue
13 84 (5.60%) HTML
14 74 (4.93%) CSS
15 73 (4.87%) ASP.NET Core
16 66 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
17 65 (4.33%) .NET Framework
18 53 (3.53%) OAuth
19 50 (3.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 413 (27.53%) Cloud Native
2 251 (16.73%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 86 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
5 61 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (3.07%) Video\Live Streaming
7 45 (3.00%) Over-the-Top Content
8 38 (2.53%) Algorithms
9 37 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
11 26 (1.73%) Blockchain
11 26 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.60%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.47%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.47%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.27%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.13%) PKI
16 17 (1.13%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.60%) Linux
2 42 (2.80%) Windows
3 20 (1.33%) Unix
4 12 (0.80%) Android
5 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.33%) CentOS
6 5 (0.33%) Debian
6 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.067%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (48.53%) CI/CD
2 610 (40.67%) Agile
3 551 (36.73%) DevOps
4 545 (36.33%) Software Engineering
5 383 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 377 (25.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 337 (22.47%) Mentoring
8 296 (19.73%) Test Automation
9 290 (19.33%) Event-Driven
10 287 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 285 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
12 279 (18.60%) AI
13 253 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
14 196 (13.07%) Scrum
15 179 (11.93%) Computer Science
16 174 (11.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 171 (11.40%) Coaching
18 170 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
19 164 (10.93%) Clean Code
20 161 (10.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 494 (32.93%) Java
2 405 (27.00%) Python
3 321 (21.40%) SQL
4 319 (21.27%) JavaScript
5 296 (19.73%) C#
6 242 (16.13%) TypeScript
7 128 (8.53%) Go
8 50 (3.33%) Scala
9 48 (3.20%) PHP
10 47 (3.13%) C++
11 39 (2.60%) Bash
12 31 (2.07%) C
13 30 (2.00%) Ruby
14 24 (1.60%) PL/SQL
15 22 (1.47%) Rust
16 20 (1.33%) Shell Script
17 19 (1.27%) PowerShell
18 18 (1.20%) Kotlin
19 14 (0.93%) Groovy
20 10 (0.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 186 (12.40%) Degree
2 167 (11.13%) Security Cleared
3 108 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 102 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 30 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.60%) CISSP
10 22 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (0.73%) CISM
15 8 (0.53%) PhD
16 6 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.40%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.33%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.60%) QA
2 37 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.00%) GDPR
4 29 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.53%) NIST
7 18 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.73%) GRC
9 10 (0.67%) NCSC
10 9 (0.60%) WCAG
11 8 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.40%) IFRS
13 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) SLA
15 2 (0.13%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
16 1 (0.067%) EMIR
System Software
1 449 (29.93%) Docker
2 13 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.067%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 473 (31.53%) Kubernetes
2 277 (18.47%) Terraform
3 84 (5.60%) Ansible
4 79 (5.27%) Grafana
5 45 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.87%) Argo
7 22 (1.47%) Kibana
8 19 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.87%) Puppet
10 9 (0.60%) Cilium
10 9 (0.60%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.27%) Packer
11 4 (0.27%) Podman
11 4 (0.27%) Rancher
12 3 (0.20%) Istio
12 3 (0.20%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) MIIS
13 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 160 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.33%) Google
3 50 (3.33%) Oracle
4 45 (3.00%) Typelevel
5 23 (1.53%) OpenAI
6 20 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.07%) AppDynamics
7 16 (1.07%) Splunk
8 14 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 13 (0.87%) IBM
10 11 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (0.73%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.67%) SAP
12 9 (0.60%) Adobe
12 9 (0.60%) Cisco
12 9 (0.60%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.47%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.47%) Databricks
14 6 (0.40%) Juniper
14 6 (0.40%) Software AG